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M. JONAS.

CIGAR PACKAGE. No. 393.113. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

N. PUERS, Pholmmhogmphor. Wuhlngwn. EC.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

MORITZ JONAS, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

CIGAR-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,113, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed July 13, 1888.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORITZ Jonas, of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in packages of cigars and cheroots; and the object of my invention is to provide packages of cigars or cheroots that are compact, neat in appearance, can be stored conveniently in a box, and from which package one cigar or cheroot can be removed without disturbing the rest.

The invention consists in a package of cigars or eheroots composed of cigars or cheroots held together at one end of the package by a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or cheroots, and a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or cheroots with the exception of the uppermost one at the opposite end of the package, the top of said uppermost cigar or cheroot being flattened.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigar-box containing five of my improved packages of cigars or chepassed around all the five cigars or chcroots,

which are arranged as shown in Fig. 5. An additional ribbon or band, D,is passed around four of the cigars or eheroots at or near the tip ends, the uppermost cigar or cheroot,which is held at its larger end by the band C, having its opposite end above the band D, as shown in Fig. 4.. The package of cigars or cheroots is then pressed so as to be approximately square in cross-section, thus permitting ofplacing or packing a number of said packages very compactly in a. cigar-box.

The cigars or cheroots of each package are held together very securely, as by the pressing their sides are beveled, so as to interlock to a certain extent. The uppermost cigar or cheroot, which is flattened in its rear half, can easily be withdrawn from the package without disturbing the remaining cigars or cheroots of the package.

The top flattened cigar or cheroot of the several packages shows very conspicuously when the box is open, thus giving the cigars a neat appearance and displaying the cigars or cheroots to a great advantage.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut-- 1. A package of cigars or cheroots in which the cigars or cheroots are held together by a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or eheroots at one end of the package,and a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or cheroots excepting the uppermost one at the opposite end of the package, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A package of cigars or chcroots composed of cigars or cheroots held together at one end of the package by a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or cheroots, and a band or ribbon passed around all the cigars or cheroots with the exception of the uppermost one at the opposite end of the package, the top of said uppermost cigar or cheroot being flattened, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my MORITZ JONAS.

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CARL KART J oH'N A. STRALEY. 

